June 2010
6 posts
HTBAGDWLYS Chp 5
Chp 5 - Running a Studio. I’m definitely nowhere in the realm of running my own studio and hiring designers to work for me but there are some interesting grabs from this section. Something Adrian made a big deal of was hiring people better than you. This might be tough but I think he’s right in the sense that these people will allow you to focus on what you do and in turn boost your...
HTBAGDWLYS Chp 4
Setting up a studio. There clearly is a shit ton of work involved in setting up a studio. Some tricky things to consider that the reading mentions are shareholdings. Sometime there is an unequal distribution of this which can easily lead to high tension. The author also mentions dividing up the work amongst partners. There are many logistics in regards to setting up a studio. It is definitely...
HTBAGDWLYS Chp 3
Freelance. I know some of my peers are already freelancing for certain clients. I think one important thing from freelancing is the contract. I’ve done only one freelance job for a “friend of a friend” and dude never paid me for making his artist myspace page look legit. I kept asking for the money and he kept saying “yeah i’ll get it to you” but i never saw a...
HTBAGDWLYS Chp 3
Freelance. I know some of my peers are already freelancing for certain clients. I think one important thing from freelancing is the contract. I’ve done only one freelance job for a “friend of a friend” and dude never paid me for making his artist myspace page look legit. I kept asking for the money and he kept saying “yeah i’ll get it to you” but i never saw a...
HTBAGDWLYS Chp. 2
This section was about finding a job. I will be in this boat pretty soon and unfortunately not all design firms or studios are the same. The section regarding the apprenticeship sounds more prestigious than internship. Internships sounds like a group of grunt workers that have no personal relationships with their mentors. I think an apprenticeship sounds more personable and its negative...
Better Late than Never Post - HTBAGWLYS Chp 1
Highlighting attributes that are needed by designers:
The text sets up the chapter by introducing what a graphic designer is and the emotional side of us. The first attribute touched upon is Communication. Something that stood out was the verbal side of communication. At first it is mentioned that graphic design is non-verbal communication but delves into how spoken communication is a vital...
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
10 posts
Sagmeister and Emotion
Sagmeister breaks down what it means to create design that is emotional. He opened up with an example of a swag bag he got at an AIGA conference in New Orleans (I’ll refer to it as Na’lins for the rest of this post). Inside the bag was all well designed stuff with no emotional content. He put it into perspective by saying that it was all predictable. Jazz, crawfish, strippers and steamboats. Same...
Directed Storytelling
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It is said that design is to communicate some sort of meaning to an audience. Meaning-making for designers is visual story telling. In the reading the author talks about ethnography which by definition is qualitative research method often used in the social sciences, particularly in anthropology...
Cultural Probes + Audience as Co-Designer
Cultural Probes
This reading was written in a journalistic giving into account the process behind the research these designers conducted in getting to know an area of which they had little knowledge about. I really appreciated their unorthodox and informal approach to the subject matter. Essentially, they surveyed an elderly community from various geographical regions. They enclosed various...
Objectives + Audience + Deliverables
Goals & Parameters
The goal of this project is actually really selfish on my part. I want to further investigate a connection I made as a youth in my grandmother’s home. I knew that my grandfather used to be Buddhist and still have some extended family that are still practicing Buddhists. I have noticed so many similarities and wanted to further explore this connection....
senior thesis
ideas and thoughts:
1. cultural exploration of myself: this idea comes from a tattoo ive been conceptualizing for myself for quite sometime. it is an image of our lady of la vang which is an apparition of the virgin mary in viet nam. growing up, i was raised catholic and would stay the religion was a big part of me growing up. however, the more i reflect on it, i would see many buddhist...
art intervention
when i hear intervention i just automatically think, drug problem or vh1’s celebrity rehab. delving more into the topic, we find this has been a prevalent current generation movement. i mean, 9 times out of 10 you may have known it this whole time but not really know the name for what’s going on. if i mention names like, banksy, shepard fairey, and joshua allen haris you might know...
designing for improv, rules of engagement, LLM
In the most literal sense, the first thought that came to mind was freestyle rap battles. Frank, you may have to get used to hearing about hip hop culture from me because that is my forte. I try to relate everything back to rap music. The culture of backpack freestyle rap are generally speaking, two artists that get together in front of an audience and are supposed to generate lyrics spontaneously...
March 2010
1 post
470
four seventy. four hundred and seventy.